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...hard to tell a village, 'You shouldn't accept these new wells or bicycles because it's from industry,' " says Stella Bialous, an adviser to the World Health Organization. "[But] when it comes time to pass regulatory things the company doesn't think reasonable, they can call in their chips. They have all these little groups dependent on their money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Tobacco Sets Its Sights on Africa | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...actually just had a conversation with Sergeant Jim Crowley, the officer involved. And I have to tell you that as I said yesterday, my impression of him was that he was a outstanding police officer and a good man, and that was confirmed in the phone conversation -- and I told him that...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Obama Backs Off Gates Remarks After Police Ask for Apology | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...guarantee that that will be true next week. I just wanted to emphasize that -- one last point I guess I would make. There are some who say that as President I shouldn't have stepped into this at all because it's a local issue. I have to tell you that that part of it I disagree with. The fact that this has become such a big issue I think is indicative of the fact that race is still a troubling aspect of our society. Whether I were black or white, I think that me commenting on this and hopefully...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Obama Backs Off Gates Remarks After Police Ask for Apology | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...most photogenic part of Philadelphia. He crawls out of his shell to meet a single-mom chiropractor (Lauren Graham), befriend a recovering alcoholic (Lou Taylor Pucci) and make a public display of vulnerability - all staples of the genre, as is the plangent piano score that indie films employ to tell viewers what to feel. (Sometimes watching a sweet movie can rouse the dormant grouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falling Out of Love with Romantic Comedies | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

...there's a whole vast universe that picture leaves out. That universe is people who are blogging not to reach a large audience, necessarily [or] to supplement their income. They're doing it to express themselves, to find out what it's like to write in public and to tell something of their own lives and experiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution of Blogging | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

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